The Masters Swimming Thread!

[Wahine]

This morning:

200 warm up

400 IM with fins done as 25 kick/25 drill/25 kick/25 drill

then 2 sets of:

50 fly
50 fly/50 back
50 back/50 breast
50 breast/100 freestyle

then 200 IM

then 12 50's in various forms

then 200 cool down.

I hate IM day. Yikes. Well if it doesn't kill you....

[Over50Newbie]

Wahine, I am very impressed!

That is quite the workout.

WOW - You go girl!

Lynette

[HillSlugger]

I had my best swim ever this morning; I swam 1000m continuous freestyle for the first time ever and I swam a total of 2000m, my longest workout ever.

[Running Mommy]

Good Job MD!

I had a break through lastnight in masters. I was struggling to keep up with everyone all night. Then Claudio came over to my lane and told me to tuck my head a bit more. I did that and suddenly I was beatng the guy in the lane next to me down the pool! And I did feel the difference when I pushed my big ol noggin down. I felt a lot more balanced.
Now if I can just get down the bilateral breathing thing! UGH!

[alpinerabbit]

Good going both of ya!

I did much better on the back stroke this monday than at butterfly the week before, but incurred some rather sore muscles.

[Kimmyt]

I haven't popped in here for a while, so here's an update. It seems like all yall are doing really well!

We've been doing backstroke in the past few weeks, and I'm starting to hate it. I always like backstroke, but with drills... its really tiring and I really feel it on my run home. Very winded.

I actually took yesterday off from class, stayed home and watched a movie (Farewell my concubine, very good!)

RM, i recently discovered the similar thing. When I drop my head in the water during freestyle, push my forehead down a bit, i almost feel like i'm physically shoving that water around me. It's very odd. It feels really nice though, and powerful, and I think a bit faster. The only problem I'm having with that is that by dropping my head, I have to rotate more to get a breath, and I'm ending up with water in my mouth more often than not. It doesn't go down my throat, but I don't get a really awesome breath in like I used to when my head was further up towards the surface. Any tips on this?

K.

[Wahine]

Good job everyone.

Way to go MD. That is really a big deal!!

I'll spare you the boring details but I swam 3 mornings this week with Masters. I thought I was going to die all 3 mornings. 2 days had a lot of stroke work which tires me out and on the freestyle day we had a hideously hard set. I was even a bit pukey.

Good news is that I feel really good. Like I'm getting enough exercise but not fatigued. I haven't felt like that in a while. I'll start training for real again (ie running and maybe biking) in mid Nov or beginnig of Dec. I'm starting to get excited about setting up a program.